Statehood for Hawaii. hearings before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, first session and second session, on S. 49, a bill to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states : S. 51, a bill to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states : H.R. 3575, an act to enable the people of Hawaii to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states. Part 3, January 13, 14, 15, and 19, 1954 :